Queen Marie of Romania Writes for Sunday Post
The article presents Queen Marie the niece of Carmen Sylva and granddaughter of Queen Victoria’s line. It notes her reputed frivolity as a youth but her later reformer spirit while describing her daily drives to bring provisions to the poor in Romania.
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Rumania
Carmen Sylva
Queen Marie
Queen Victoria
Alexander II
Czar
Russia
Kaiser ‘Wilhelm
Romania
Sunday Post
Queen of Romania recalls winter 1917 aid to prisoners
In a bitter 1917 winter drive, Marie H. M. and her daughter deliver bread sugar biscuits and clothes to a weary group of prisoners from many lands marching with logs on their backs. The scene shows hunger cold and hardship bending their shoulders and gaze. The young narrator weighs giving more versus the needs they encounter as the motor pushes on.
Locklear the Nut Aviator Dares Mid Air Feats
In today’s Sunday Post Pictorial, Lt Olivier Locklear performs dramatic mid air stunts high above the earth. He transfers fuel between planes, climbs a rope ladder from a lower plane, and leaps between aircraft to prove airborne feasibility.
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Locklear
Post Pictorial
Sunday Post
Olivier Locklear
Barron Field
Texas
Customs House Tower
Earth
New York
San Francisco
International Film Service
Omer Locklear
Why Do We Pass By The Starving Prisoners On The Road
A narrator describes stopping for famished, freezing outcasts asking for aid. Despite giving all they have, hunger and cold prevail and the scene becomes a nightmare of despair. The narrator reflects on prisoners scattered across lands and questions why such suffering exists.
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Boston Post
Chicago Tribune
Villages Show War's Havoc Editorial Tone in Stars and Stripes
An editorial portraits Rheims and surrounding ruins to emphasize the human cost of war. It contrasts the cathedral’s beauty with villages left lifeless and the weary survivors who must endure the future peace. It ends with a plea for durable, just postwar settlement.
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Rheims
Samothrace
Rais
Monsieur
Madame
Les Oiseaux Bleus Are This Tot's Best Friend
Four year old Etienne names Les Oiseaux Bleus as his best loves. American committee volunteers, dubbed blue birds, assist devastated France as nurses doctors dentists and drivers. They work self funded at $2400 yearly while aiding orphans in Bleurancourt and Anity.
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Les Oiseaux Bleus
Tot
Etienne
American Committee For
France
Anity
American Committee
Bleurancourt
Why Mr McAdoo Went Into the Movies 411 Stage
A collection from Atlantic Monthly June contributors reveals letters from American citizens to Secretary of the Treasury about war dependents pay. The excerpts show mothers seeking allotments, soldiers abroad, elopement money, and insurance issues. Letters plead for support for families, marriages, and postwar arrangements with tone of plaintive humor and frustration.
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McAdoo
The
Atlantic Monthly
Mr. Wilson
Crafty Broomtail Pony Escaped Hunter's Rope
The piece describes the broomtail wild horses of the Four Corners region, their ancestry and traits. It recounts a mother broomtail cleverly foiling a hunter by not revealing her concealed colt and by using swift, deceptive movements to escape.
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Four Corners
Colorado
New Mexico
Arizona
Utah
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Hawker
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